Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-19
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THE c., C. & C. RAILROAD.
an ACT PROVIDING FOR NEW ELECTIONS
IN CERTAIN TOWNSHIPS.
| AN ACT to authorize and require the County
| Commissioners of York county to submit to
the qualified voters of Broad River township
| = and Bullock Creek township, in York county,
the question of transferring the subscription
heretofore voted to the Georgetown and North
| Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company to
any other railroad company. after limited pc
riod and also to submit to the qualified voters
subscription of said township to the Charles
ton, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Compa-
| ny, in certain particulars
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting IN
General Assembly, and by the authority OF
the same, That the county commissioners of
York County be, and they hereby are, au-
thorized, empowered and required, upon
the petition of fifty freeholders in either
Broad River township, or Bullock's Creek
township, in said county, to submit the
question of transferring to any other rail-
road company the subscription heretofore
voted by said township to the Georgetown
and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Rail-
road Company, in case the Charleston, Gin
cinnati and Chicago Railroad Company
shall fail to comply with the terms and con-
ditions of said subscription, and all the
agreements and contracts, if any, made and
entered into in pursuance thereof.
SEC. 2. That for the purpose OF determin-
ing the question of transferring or not trans
ferring said subscription, it shall be the duty
of the county commissioners of York coun-
ty, upon the petition of fifty freeholders in
either of the townships mentioned in this
Act, to order an election by the qualified
voters of said township, or either of them,
thirty days notice of the time and place Of
such election having first been given. The
said county commissioners shall appoint
three managers in each township to conduct
said election, who being duly sworn, accord
ing to law, shall hold the election at such
time and place and during such hours asithe
said county commissioners may fix and de-
| termine.
SEC. 3. The electors voting at said election
| shall vote a written or printed ballot; those
voting for transfer shall contain the words:
'Transfer-Yes," and those voting against
transfer shall contain the words: "Transfer
NO."
SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said man.
ayers at the close of the election, to count
the votes, declare the result of the election
and certify the same in writing to the board
of county commissioners of said county.
SEC. S. That if amajority of the qualified
voters of said townships or either of them,
shall at said election vote for the transfer OF
said subscription, it shall be the duty of the
county commissioners to transfer the said
subscription to any other railroad company
which shall accept the same and obligate
itself to construct railroad through the
said Townships: Provided, That the election
herein provided for shall not be ordered
until after the expiration of the time there
in limited for the said Charleston, Cincin-
natl and Chicago Railroad Company, success
sor of the said Georgetown and North Caro-
lima Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, to
signify it's acceptance of said subscriptions
and to comply with all agreements and con-
tracts, if any, heretofore entered into by
and between the said railroad company and
the county commissioners Of said county.
SEC. 6. That if the the said Charleston,
Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company,
successor of the said Georgetown and North
Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company,
voted, and shall not comply with the terms
and conditions of said subscrip ptions and con-
tracts, if any, entered into with the county
commissioners of York county in pursuance
thereof, and said subscriptions shall be
transferred to any other railroad company,
the county commissioners for said county
shall place the bonds for said subscriptions
in the hands of a trustee resident in this
State, and who shall be alike acceptable to
the said county commissioners and the said
railroad company; the said bonds to be de-
livered only upon the following terms and
conditions, to-wit: When sections of five
miles shall have been completed, the said
trustee shall deliver an amount of said
bonds which shall bear the same ratio and
proportion to the whole amount of said
bonds as the said five-mile sections shall
bear to the whole number of miles OF said
railroad company running through the said
townships; Provided, That before said trus-
tee shall deliver any of said bonds he shall
first have the certificate of the chief engineer
of said railroad, countersigned by the coun-
ty commissioners of said county, that said
tive-mile sections have been completed in
said townships.
SEC. I. That the county commissioners
of York be and they are hereby authorized
and empowered, upon petition of ma
jority Of the freeholders of York township,
in said county, to submit to the qualified
voters Of said township the question of
changing the amount and the terms and
conditions of the subscription heretofore
voted in aid of the Charleston, Cincinnati
and Chicago Railroad Company by said
township, in so far as the same names the
sum of seventy-tve thousand dollars and
specifies and requires that the line of said
railroad company shall be builtf Blacks
to Yorkville, along and conforming to the
survey of December, 1855, known as the
"direct survey" and permitting the said
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad
Company, in consideration Of the amount Of
subscription to be named in said petition, to
build their railroad by any other line from
Blacks to Yorkville; Provided, That if
majority of the qualified voters Of York
township, shall, at an election to be held as
provided for herein, decide in favor of per-
hitting the said Charleston, Cincinnati and
Chicago Railroad Company, in considera-
tion of the new subscription aforesaid, to
change the location oftheir line from Blacks
to Yorkville, as herein provided for, and to
build the same by the most practicable
route, then and in that event, the county
commissioners of the county of York shall
so effectually change and modify (but no
further) the contract or agreement hereto
fore made by the said county commission
ers to and with the said Charleston, Gin
cinnati and Chicago Railroad Company, and
shall also so change and modify the trust
indenture entered into by the said county
commissioners as the corporate head of
said York township, with the Boston Safe
Deposit and Trust Company, OF the city of
Boston, State of Massachusetts, on the 18th
day of April, 1856, providing the terms and
conditions of the delivery of the sum of
seventy-fve thousand dollars, already sub
scribed in township bonds of said township,
as to conform to the terms of this Act, by
substituting the new subscription in like
bonds, and eliminating from said agree
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